In store now! Humor by Stanley Donwood

In store now! Humor by Stanley Donwood

Welcome to Stanley Donwood's fictional universe: a landscape of dark streets and high-rise concrete, creeping shadows and shifting perspectives; its citizens forever caught between boredom and paranoia, alive to the threat of menacing machines and Aliens from Outer Space. Here disappearances (people, things) are everyday.

Relationships are unstable. Nature has turned unnatural. Unsettling dreams segue into waking nightmares

The iconic artist and famed Radiohead illustrator here presents his first collection of short stories. Dark, eerie, and - as the title suggests - often very funny, Humor is also lavishly illustrated by Donwood himself. A perfect Christmas present for fans of music and fiction alike!

Order your copy today directly through October Books or buy online through our bookshop store and we’ll get a commission on your purchase.

Humor by Stanley Donwood

Paperback £10.99.

In Humor, Stanley Donwood reveals himself as a contemporary master of the micro-narrative, riffing on the four humors of the human body - sanguine, phlegm, choler and melancholy - to rummage beneath the veneer of sanity that passes for civilised society. Apocalyptic, funny and hallucinogenic in their intensity, these stories present a series of brief, haunting episodes in a world drained of meaning, sense and consequence.

Order your copy today directly from October Books or buy online through our bookshop store and we’ll get commission on your purchase.

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